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1. 1. Staff Listing - The Minnesota Daily

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   Published on: 5/21/2003   Last Visited: 5/21/2003

   Amy Danielson: adanielson@mndaily.com, ext. 3235 Arts Staff Writer

2. 2. Rude, Crude and Coming Unglued - The Minnesota Daily

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   Published on: 10/10/2002   Last Visited: 10/10/2002

   By Amy Danielson
   
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   She lucidly recalls the horrific sight of a giant cloud of dust and debris as it hurled around a building. She describes in a phone interview that she captured this moment on Super-8 film and will integrate it into "Buy This!" her segment of the upcoming 3 Legged Race production Hand Driven 4, a showcase for new puppetry and object manipulation theater. Although the scene of demolition in New York partially inspired Flaherty's upcoming performance, cleaning out a deceased man's apartment cluttered with mail order catalogs and unopened packages stirred her more frantically. She realized then that her boyfriend's brother was a lonely man who probably purchased things to fill a void in his life. Also, as a camera assistant in the television commercial industry, she has become a bit jaded knowing the ins and outs of the industry, or as she puts it, "knowing that the ice cream is really just mashed potatoes." With her multiple experiences and various ways of thinking about the issues surrounding advertising and American culture, she explores human loneliness and everyone's desire to be heard in a series of short vignettes that she created herself, from the costumes and props to the narratives and performances.
   
   The producers of 3 Legged Race call themselves a "servant producer" and, as their name suggests, work collaboratively with artists, providing resources to develop a production. By giving artists freedom to create and take risks without worrying about what is socially desirable, they encourage some of the most fascinating theater available (which often incorporates dance, circus arts and puppetry). Each year they commission new work which challenges our expectations of what local theater should be. Furthermore, the Hand Driven series has been a vehicle for the company to stage new puppetry and object theater by eclectic groups of up-and-coming artists over the last three years. This, their fourth Hand Driven, emerges with five original works and a new theme: rude. These are works in-process.

3. 3. Crouching Guthrie, Hidden Shakespeare - The Minnesota Daily

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   Published on: 10/11/2002   Last Visited: 10/11/2002

   By Amy Danielson
   
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   he last few Guthrie productions have fallen short of their potential, so a dramatic recovery for their current production, The Comedy of Errors, could not have been anticipated. However, with Theatre de la Jeune Lune's Dominique Serrand in the artistic chair, something as visually astonishing and physically-oriented as Alice in Wonderland at the Children's Theater should have been expected.
   
   In this play about confused identity and nagging befuddled emotions, two sets of twins cause a series of hilarious blunders.